I will never grace their door again! I love Chili's. For a chain restaurant, they're typically consistent and it's where I want to go for babyback ribs and other favorite dishes. NOT this location though. We were told a 25 minute wait for a table. Ok, I'm good with that since it was Saturday night (no holiday or anything though). Over an hour and the only reason we got a table then was because we told them we were leaving. We should have followed that thought and left. Empty tables everywhere and lines of people waiting, but they couldn't get their act together to seat people.
Now add LOUD! Did I say LOUD? Yeah, louder than any chain restaurant I've ever been to. Perhaps it didn't help that we had the total Mouth of the South at the table next to us who didn't understand an inside voice and if she said Magic City less than 50 times I'll eat my hat. That Oh God it's so good to be back in Georgia. Sheesh...she made our experience as uncomfortable as much as the restaurant itself.
Server was on the ball at first. Got an appetizer to the table quickly and drinks, except mine. We watched my margarita presidente sit at the bar for 20 minutes before she finally went and got it. I poured the water out of my glass and it filled a plate before i poured the watered down, melted margarita into the glass. There was little to no alcohol and a whole lot of salt in the drink, not just on the rim. I'm a saltaholic, so I never complain about too much salt. It should be on the rim, not in the drink too. Food came fairly late. My waitress didn't show back up to see if I wanted another drink or perhaps some tea or something. Two of the guests at my table had foreign food in their entrees. One plate had tortilla chips on it and it was a chicken tender plate. The other entree had some bits of mystery meat in the french fries and chives.
So, we flag down the manager and advise him that food that should not have been on our plates was there. He actually picked the pieces of chives off the guy's french fries and said, "what do you want me to do about it"? Um, really? Then he said, "well chives go with the mashed potatoes so they were close together and probably fell on there". Um, NO! He did offer me another margarita and I took it, but same probably so much salt mixed in the shaker before I even poured it into the glass. On taking the top off the shaker I had to wonder when was the last time it was washed. So sticky it stuck to my hand.
We were done. Really all around, bad experience, service poor, etc. So the waitress offered us free desert. Um no. Why would we want anything else out of that kitchen? So they comped the appetizers. Did I mention that the cheese sticks on the app dish were stone cold?
I'll drive further to another Chili's before I ever go to this one again.
Probably the worst review I've ever given. read more